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LOS ANGELES – A TV communicator who irreligious into gibberish during a springy effort correct the Grammys said she was terrified when it happened and knew something was criminal as presently as she unsealed her mouth.

KCBS-TV communicator Serene Branson's disjuncture Sunday fueled cyberspace speculation that she suffered an on-air stroke. But doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she went to intend a mentality scan and blood impact done, ruled it out. Doctors said she suffered a type of cephalalgia that crapper mimic symptoms of a stroke.

Branson told CBS' "The Early Show" in an discourse weekday that she was terrified, afraid and confused, and didn't undergo what was going on.

"I knew something wasn't correct as presently as I unsealed my mouth," she said. "I hadn't been opinion well a little taste before the springy shot. I had a headache, my exteroception was rattling blurry. I knew something wasn't right, but I meet intellection I was tired. So when I unsealed my mouth, I thought, 'This is more than meet being tired. Something is terribly wrong.' I wanted to say, 'Lady Antebellum sweptwing the Grammys.' And I could think of the words, but I could not intend them coming discover properly."

Branson, who was diagnosed with cephalalgia aura, said watching herself in the clip is "troubling."

Kerry Maller, a KCBS producer, told "The Early Show," "You could wager in the tape she's trying to talk."

Maller, who was on-location with the veteran reporter, said, "After the springy shot, she dropped the mike and got rattling wobbly."

The send apace cut absent and Branson was swarmed by photographers and her field producer. She was examined by paramedics and recovered at home.

Branson recalled, "They sat me downbound immediately. I dropped the microphone. Right after that, my disrespect went numb, my assistance went numb, my correct assistance went desensitize and I started to cry. I was scared. I didn't undergo what had absent on and I was ashamed and fearful.

"I was scared, nervous, confused, exhausted, and in an daytime coiffe in the backwards of an ambulance."

She returned to the KCBS-TV newsroom on Thursday.

Most people with migraines don't hit any warning. But about 20 to 30 percent experience sensations before or during a cephalalgia attack.

"A cephalalgia is not meet a headache. It's a complicated mentality event," said UCLA specialist Dr. Andrew Charles, who examined Branson.

The most ordinary sensations allow seeing flashes of reddened or move patterns. In Branson's case, she felt numbness on the correct lateral of her grappling that strained her speech, physicist said.

"She was actually having the aching patch she was having these other symptoms," he said.

Branson told doctors she has had migraines since a female but never suffered an episode same this before, physicist said.

Branson, a Los Angeles native and two-time accolade nominee, worked at the CBS affiliate in Sacramento before connexion KCBS. Prior to that, she was a communicator and anchor at TV stations in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara.

A telephone message mitt with KCBS was not directly returned Thursday.

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